Top banker's trip to Europe

Bank of Baroda's Executive Director Mr. Rajiv Kumar Bakshi recently visited the Bank's European Operations in UK and Belgium.

During his visit Bakshi had several engagements including meeting with senior representatives of the Financial Services Authority, bank's top customers and JV Partners.

Bakshi, a seasoned banker, has had wide overseas experience having worked in London and Singapore. He also had the rich experience of working as Head of Treasury as also of Large Corporate Credit.

Bank of Baroda marked impressive business performance even in recent times of financial turbulence and acquired the position of third largest Public Sector bank in India in terms of Net Profit and Total Business for fiscal 2008-09.

UEL graduation ceremony

Sathi Ludhianvi awarded honorary doctorate

Sathi Ludhianvi, a multilingual discussion host on Kismat Radio, London, has been awarded the Honorary Doctorate of Arts by the University of East London (UEL). The award was conferred on him by the Chancellor, Lord Rix, at the famous Barbican Centre in London on October 29, 2009.

Sathi Ludhianvi is a well known Punjabi author and journalist who was the first Punjabi journalist in England and Europe to be a Punjabi news editor on Sunrise Radio in the nineties. On radio he extensively discussed social and political issues relating to the South Asians living in the United Kingdom. His five-days-a-week current affairs programme on Kismat Radio, a sister radio station of Sunrise Radio Network, is well received in UK and elsewhere in Europe. He later became popular on television also.

The Acting Vice-Chancellor of UEL, Prof Susan Price, said about the recipient, 'Sathi Ludhianvi has worked tirelessly to tackle issues of social justice and inequality.'

The Dean of UEL, Dr Mohammad Dastbaz said, 'Sathi's radio programmes have always dealt with ground-breaking cultural issues in current affairs, covering contemporary political issues in the UK and South Asia, such as race relations, women's rights, social cohesion, immigration, even bhangra music and its cultural influences.'
Dr Dastbaz said in his citation speech, 'Sathi, in recognition of your many contributions to broadcasting and journalism and to your outstanding services to championing human rights, it gives me the greatest pleasure to ask Chancellor Lord Rix to confer on you  the award of Doctor of Arts, Honoris Causa.'

Sathi Ludhianvi arrived in the UK in 1962 from Ludhiana, India. He worked for the Post Office and British Airways as sub-postmaster and capacity control officer respectively before becoming a successful businessman in pharmacy, sports goods and stationery trade.

A graduate from the University of Punjab, Sathi Ludhianvi has become the first Punjabi and multilingual broadcaster, writer and journalist to receive this honour from University of East London.

He has received many other awards including Sahit Sharomani award from the government of Punjab in 1985 and later on Culture and Media award from India International Foundation. He also won the Life Time Achievement award from Punjabi Academy in Leicester, Britain.

After receiving his doctorate, Dr Sathi Ludhianvi said in a speech, 'I feel extremely honoured, privileged and humbled, but with this award I feel more responsible to make this world better in my own small way.' He added, 'The people in the business of education are the true saviours of this world. I salute the people who impart their wisdom to their students.' Here he quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson: 'Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.'

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